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» Brother_Jones - Concerning the New Testament

I don't think I'm in any kind of trouble when folks try to make a distinction between myself and Jesus. The core problem that most face with the New Testament, in my opinion, is whether Jesus was just one of many great men and He happened to live at the right time and right place of these writings. Or in other words, Jesus was among the first of many to come along with some great ideas, and the world has many Redeemers. It is an incomprehensible puzzle for some to read through the documents and assume that those who actually spent time with Him daily, saw such an influence that they could not describe Him with the same amount of logic and emotion as with other great leaders. Since in the progression of the Bible, nobody is described as having such amazing intelligence and Spirit that they become a point of being ascribed as the chosen Messiah. We are left with the writings of those who saw one person in time who is very difficult to make comparisons. And so digging into His life would seem to make sense to ponder whether this person caused the writers to change for some reason their entire biblical message to fit a nobody or to fit an above average Jew. Or He was the Christ.

the oldtimer

-- posted by Brother_Jones